We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

China’s international trade flows have increased by 500% since 1992, far outstripping GDP growth. Likewise tertiary … economies. A decade of trade biased growth in China is found to have a large effect on the USA economy – raising GDP … approximately 3-4.5 percentage points. We also show that the trade bias in China’s growth accounts for more than half of the …

The paper estimates cross-province growth regressions for China over the period of economic reform.  It first addresses … General-to-Specific approach, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China.  The first-stage model … question: why has China, as a whole, and indeed all its provinces, grown so fast? …

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …. Across China’s provinces, divergences in per capita incomes are driven by the relative level of capital-intensity, public …

Asian economies including China. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical results are based on the analysis of a panel …